A Google engineer used internal search data to bet $2.7m on Polymarket. The DOJ has charged him. (opens in new tab)

Covers Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term

Michele Spagnuolo allegedly traded under the handle ‘AlphaRaccoon’, netting $1.2m on Google’s Year-in-Search outcomes. It is the second federal criminal case tied to Polymarket. Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have charged Michele Spagnuolo, a 36-year-old Google information-security engineer based in Switzerland, with using internal Google search-trend data to bet $2.7m on […] at The Next Web

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